Hands-on Tableau Tutorial for Beginners

Attention: This video was recorded from a lecture session.
About Tableau:
Tableau is a Business Intelligence tool for visually analyzing the data. Users can create and distribute an interactive and shareable dashboard, which depict the trends, variations, and density of the data in the form of graphs and charts.
Tableau can connect to files, relational and Big Data sources to acquire and process data. The software allows data blending and real-time collaboration, which makes it very unique. It is used by businesses, academic researchers, and many government organizations for visual data analysis. It is also positioned as a leader Business Intelligence and Analytics Platform in Gartner Magic Quadrant.
As a leading data visualization tool, Tableau has many desirable and unique features. Its powerful data discovery and exploration application allows you to answer important questions in seconds. You can use Tableau's drag and drop interface to visualize any data, explore different views, and even combine multiple databases easily. It does not require any complex scripting. Anyone who understands the business problems can address it with a visualization of the relevant data. After analysis, sharing with others is as easy as publishing to Tableau Server.
Features:
Tableau provides solutions for all kinds of industrial data and environments. Following are some unique features which enable Tableau to handle diverse scenarios.
• Speed of Analysis: As it does not require high level of programming expertise, any user with access to data can start using it to derive value from the data.
• Self-Reliant: Tableau does not need a complex software setup. The desktop version which is used by most users is easily installed and contains all the features needed to start and complete data analysis.
• Visual Discovery: The user explores and analyzes the data by using visual tools like colors, trend lines, charts, and graphs. There is very little script to be written as nearly everything is done by drag and drop.
• Blend Diverse Data Sets: Tableau allows you to blend different relational, semi-structured and raw data sources in real time, without expensive up-front integration costs. The users don’t need to know the details of how data is stored.
• Architecture Agnostic: Tableau works in all kinds of devices where data flows. Hence, the user need not worry about specific hardware or software requirements to use Tableau.
• Real-Time Collaboration: Tableau can filter, sort, and discuss data on the fly and embed a live dashboard in portals like SharePoint site or Salesforce. You can save your view of data and allow colleagues to subscribe to your interactive dashboards, so they see the very latest data just by refreshing their web browser.
• Centralized Data: Tableau server provides a centralized location to manage all of the organization’s published data sources. You can delete, change permissions, add tags, and manage schedules in one convenient location. It’s easy to schedule extract refreshes and manage them in the data server. Administrators can centrally define a schedule for extracts on the server for both incremental and full refreshes.
Note:
It is important to let students know that Tableau offers free version of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Prep to students who use Tableau for practical. This is done by submitting request with evidence of studentship to Tableau directly.
How to download and Install:
To install Tableau Desktop, complete the following steps
1. Download the installer from one of the following locations:
• For the most current version of Tableau Desktop, go to www.tableau.co....
• In the Product Downloads section, click to download the Tableau Desktop installer for the version you need (Windows 64-bit or Mac).
2. Depending on your operating system, do one of the following:
• For Windows: Run the installer and follow the prompt
• For Mac: Mount and open the Disk Image file (.DMG), and double-click the installer package (.PKG) to start the installation.
3. If you are installing Tableau Desktop version 10.1 and earlier on the Mac, you will be prompted to drag the Tableau Desktop icon to your Applications folder.
You can find the sample data:
C:\Program Files\Tableau\Tableau 2020.3\defaults\Datasources\en_US-EU\Sample-SuperStore .
Or download it from this link www.tableau.co...